“This is awful, I hate it,” Amber VanHecke, 24, said in a video she created while stuck in the Arizona wilderness. “I wanna leave messages for you guys, but every time I think about it, I just start crying.”

She left the heartbreaking words to her family in a video diary she made while stranded.

VanHecke was on spring break in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, and was in her car trying to get to the famous Havasu Falls Trail for a hike, but she said Google maps told her to turn onto a road that didn't exist.

She turned anyway, but then ran out of gas — and found herself in the worst situation of her life.

“I’ve rationed my water. Three bottles a day,” she said in the video.

Vanhecke started the video diary in case she didn’t make it.

“I've wrote stuff on my back window, 'help,' 'out of gas' and 'lost,'" she said.

Amber used duct tape to spell a giant "help" message on an abandoned oil tank. She formed rocks into a "help" sign she hoped would be visible from the air. But it didn't work.